Athabasca News

Downtown Athabasca is getting a new strip mall and maybe some new big names in chain outlets by this fall.

Athabasca-Redwater MLA Jeff Johnson will join Alberta Energy Minister Ron Liepert in Minnesota and Illinois from Feb. 6-9 to help promote Alberta’s energy sector.

Staff cuts within the Aspen View School Division are now certain in the face of continually falling enrollment numbers. Speaking to the Advocate Thursday, Aspen View superintendent Brian LeMessurier said, “There will be staff cuts.

The Alberta Food Bank Network Association (AFBNA) would like to reassure the Boyle Food Bank that they have not been forgotten.

Former Athabasca youth worker Jason Andrew Keough was found guilty Monday on two counts of possessing child pornography, one count of voyeurism and one count of making voyeuristic material.

A 77-year-old woman’s fight to keep her husband in the community where they spent their lives together and raised a family came to a happy conclusion this week.

A Boyle RCMP member shot a man in his 40’s at a rural residence east of Grassland on Saturday evening while responding to a firearms complaint. At approximately 7:15 p.m.

Excitement was not in short supply when Associated Ambulance moved into their new Boyle facility just over a week ago.

Edwin Parr Composite music student Davis Weber got his first taste of the limelight on stage at the Nancy Appleby Theatre during a concert last Thursday to raise funds for his school's new music program.

Not only has the Boyle Employment Centre moved into its very own building, but due to its increasing success, the Alberta government has extended its funding until March 2012.